Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid #joyce co-host of The Cyclist Podcast

co-host of The Cyclist Podcast An Everyman dropped into the world of Supermen

In 2020 she was awarded the Padma Vibhushan

unknown language and way of life

ready to pour gasoline on every fire – the tabloids

for 5 years

Queen Macbeth: Darkland Tales by Val McDermid #joyce co-host of The Cyclist PodcastShakespeare fed us the myth of the Macbeths as murderous conspirators. But now Val McDermid drags the truth out of the shadows, exposing the patriarchal prejudices of history. A thousand years ago in an ancient Scottish landscape, a woman is on the run with her three companions a healer, a weaver and a seer. The men hunting her will kill her because she is the only one who stands between them and their violent ambition. She is no lady: she is the